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[Yoda]

2012
John Carter - fell asleep during it.
>>> was ok, but the original story from Asimov was borderline, so no wonder that the disney version is a little better but not that entertaining either.

Underworld - didn't do it - felt like the entire movie was an unfinished filler for the next movie.
>>> 1st was barely ok, 2nd was poor, not looking for the 3rd.

Lockout - avoid this - boring
>>> don't know this one, I may have skip it without even noticing it was supposed to be a good one

Avengers - if it isn't any better than Thor and Captain America, its going to be lame. I hope not.
>>> it was ok, but not exceptional. not enough death on the good side.

Prometheus - Prequel to Alien? looks interesting / can piss-off non-scientologists
>>> this one is not out yet here. I am still looking forward to it.

TDK Rises - Looking forward to it. / disappointing ?
>>> this one is not out yet here.

The Hobbit - Looking forward to it.
>>> this one is not out yet here.not really looking to watch it if it's the same gay-fest as TLOTR.

Amazing Spider-man - I hope its a decent reboot. The previous 3rd spiderman was lame
>>> this one out here before in the US. it was barely ok... I am always pissed off to see tennager adaptation of superheroes... spiderman is supposed to be a student, not a high-school boy.


MiB3 - Its all up to Will Smith, because Josh Brolin just isn't doing it in the trailers.
>>> after the poor quality of the 2nd, I skip this one.

Total Recall - supposed to be true to the original story, should be better than the Arnold cheesefest
>>> this one is not out yet here, I am still hesitating if I watch it or not.

Snow White and the Huntsman - looks interesting. But omg, that girl from the Twilight movies cannot act
>>> this one was interesting, a little bit of copy/paste from different sources. But not a must see.

Battleship - looks like a CGI fest. who knows might be ok.
>>> I was ok for some parts, and stupid for some other. globally "ok but"

GI Joe 2 - Can't possibly be any worse than the first one.
>>> I won't watch it on Cinema.

The Bourne Legacy - Looking forward to this one.
>>> me too.

Expendables 2 - just to see the old action hero's blow shit up again.
>>> no thanks.

World War Z - looks interesting, if they depart from the cheesy quasi humourous zombie B movies theme.
>>> I have no idea what is this one.

Skyfall - I like the Daniel Craig Bond
>>> me too.

Ted - lame
>>> looks stupid to no end.

that's the stand point for me so far.


oh and one that everyone forgot, and I didn't see on cinema but at home and that I found very very good was .... Chronicle

[Silthrix]

TDKR was good. Had a few great moments. Had some plot holes etc. but still a fun movie overall. Too bad it's that team's last Batman.

Prometheus wasn't all that Yoda.

I didn't find LOTR gay but then again I must have read the books at least 5x growing up. Really looking forward to The Hobbit.

Avengers was super fun.

Can't really comment on the rest for now, but Recall does look pretty good, especially the chick with three tits--yummy!

[Quillium]

Some spoilers embedded below, so skip the post if you don't want to read them and TDKR isn't where you live yet.


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TDKR:

Anything with Anne Hathaway worked. She saved the movie from being total crap.

Anything with Bane and the Magic Disembodied Voice blew. And probably my major complaint is that overprocessed, unrealistic voice that brought back images of The Muppets. Covering your hero or villains face for 99.9% of the movie does not work. It sounded like whoever it was was in a soundbooth offscreen and it didn't match up beilevably to the character. It doesn't help that Bane is one of the worst Batman villains in the comics or otherwise and this didn't change that. When you have to hurt the hero physically to get a character over with the fans, you have yourself an inherently weak character.

The monologuing. Oh my god, the monologuing. 2.75 hours of people giving speeches. Even worse, Bane, allready crippled by the overprocessed voice, giving one of the most rip-roaring hilarious speeches from the steps of city hall. I really wanted to burst out laughing at the ludicrousness of it, but hey.. i'm considerate of my fellow viewer.

The Passion of The Batman. With the exception of the aforementioned Miss Hathaway, nobody showed up wanting to actually have fun. Everybody was a few Vicodin short of a good performance as they emoted the PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNN .

The Deserted City of Gotham. Where were the people? Are they chafing under the rule of Bane or simply having the time of their lives under the new leadership? One of the brilliant parts about TDK was actually finding ways to include them so you can feel with the city feels. Not to mention, the logical climax should feature them rising up with the help of Batman to take back the city and free the police, not have some freaking cops do it that have been in the sewers for 3 months.

Are you kidding? Really? Want to know what happens when a relatively large and lightly armed force takes on a heavily armed smaller force?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csr0dxalpI starting @ 3:30. As a bonus you get Michael Caine in his first featured role.

What it really needed was massive amounts of citizens overwhelming Bane's criminals through sheer numbers with a lot of people dead. The city itself finally saying no more.

All in all... Hathaway works, the very end with bowtying the series is decent, and thats about it. Its the 3rd best of Nolan's Batman films, and the very worst movie he's ever made. I'd gladly watch BB, TDK, or really any of his other films(its not like i'm not a fan of his work) again, i'll probably never sit through this again.

[Quillium]

2012
John Carter - fell asleep during it.
>>> was ok, but the original story from Asimov was borderline, so no wonder that the disney version is a little better but not that entertaining either.

Btw.. the John Carter books were written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Same guy who created Tarzan.

[Yoda]

really ? then I dunno who copied who but the story is very very close from a small novel of Asinov that he wrote when he was young.

[Quillium]

Originally Posted by Yoda

really ? then I dunno who copied who but the story is very very close from a small novel of Asinov that he wrote when he was young.

Always possible. The one hallmark of John Carter is it was one of the most derived works that had never been made, but had never had a feature adaptation(and in hindsight, probably shouldn't have heh). Superman was inspired by it. Avatar(which was based loosely off Dances with Wolves which was based loosely off John Carter) poached from it. But John Carter was first published the same year the Titanic sank(1912), and Asimov wouldn't be born until 8 years later.

The story is old, and it showed. A riproaring action film featuring a civil war vet going to Mars should have been killed before it got off the ground. That might work in 1912, its just dated now. Most 'old' stories simply don't work in cinema without some form of modernization. Its why faithful tellings of Three Muskateer, Dracula, or Frankenstein movies rarely work. Even Shakespeare's stuff tends to go unwatched without a modernization ala Romeo + Juliet(The Dicaprio version).

[Silthrix]

Thor and Cap America are on netflix now--both decent and worth seeing imo.
Conan remake fucking sucked. I tried 4x to watch on netflix and fell asleep each time and finally gave up.
Good points on batman quill-i agree with most of your points but I still enjoyed it.

[Mendler]

Bourne Legacy was pretty good. They did a good job tying in Jason Bourne to the new movie. My wife even liked the movie and she has a hard time with he sheer number of death defying situations they create.

[Fooxjift]

I am final, I am sorry, but, in my opinion, there is other way of the decision of a question.

[Yoda]

so, with 2012 over, what was the best movie for you ?

For me it was The hobbit, with a big distance to the second (whatever it is).

[Rildoan]

Bourne.

The others ranged from 'meh' to 'i can't believe i just wasted $10 and 2-4 hours watching this crap'.

[huggly]

The Hobbit really didn't do it for me, I was actually bored. Though the material they covered is probably the least interesting part of the book. Hoping the next installment will be better.

For me, it was probably Skyfall. Though, I found the last 3rd a little tedious, and the villain portrayal didn't work all that well. Same with TDKR, the villain underwhelmed.

Jack Reacher probably would have been good, if I hadn't already read the books.

For pure drama I enjoyed Silver Linings Playbook, and Trouble with the Curve.

I was probably the most entertained by The Avengers.

Worth mentioning are Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, and Argo.

[Mendler]

Hobbit was very good but I am a fan so take that with a grain of salt. There wasn't the end all battle (there were some but not the previous ones) so that might of turned off some. I'm really looking forward to the next two movies.

The Avengers was pretty good.

I want to see Zero Dark Thirty. I did see Argo and loved it.

[Rildoan]

LOTR lore is like Harry Potter - either you're into it or you're not, and that basically determines if the movie is good/sucks. Another way of telling that is whether you or anyone close to you have bought/read the LOTR trilogy, Hobbit, and other Tolkien works.

My brother used to have all of that stuff, incidentally.

[Redhenna]

Only movie I got really excited about in 2012 was Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Thankfully it did come here so I got to see it. Very well done.